LEADER 00000cam a2200769 i 4500 001 on1176276397 003 OCoLC 005 20210702123418.7 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 200721s2020 maua ob 001 0 eng d 019 1238318008 020 9781613767665|q(electronic book) 020 1613767668|q(electronic book) 020 |z9781625345165 020 |z162534516X 020 |z9781625345172 020 |z1625345178 035 (OCoLC)1176276397|z(OCoLC)1238318008 037 22573/ctv15zr60t|bJSTOR 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dYDX|dP@U|dJSTOR|dEBLCP|dAFU|dOCLCQ |dOCLCO 043 f-sa--- 049 RIDW 050 4 GT3650.5.S6|bT44 2020eb 072 7 SOC|x000000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC|x001000|2bisacsh 072 7 PER|x011020|2bisacsh 072 7 HIS|x037000|2bisacsh 082 04 791/.120968|223 090 GT3650.5.S6|bT44 2020eb 100 1 Thelwell, Chinua,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2016030165|eauthor. 245 10 Exporting Jim Crow :|bBlackface minstrelsy in South Africa and beyond /|cChinua Thelwell. 264 1 Amherst :|bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,|c[2020] 300 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 500 Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, 2011. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction. Burnt Cork Nationalism and the Five Waves of Minstrel Globalization -- Foundations: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States and Across the British Empire, 1830-1862 -- An Empire of Burnt Cork: Blackface Minstrelsy in Pre-Industrial South Africa, 1862-1872 -- Diamonds, Dandies, and Dispossession: Minstrel Shows During the South African Mineral Revolution, 1872-1889 -- "Slipping the Yoke": McAdoo's Jubilee Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics, 1890-1898 -- Brown- on-Black Masquerade: Cape Town's Coon Carnival -- Afterword. Global Blackface: Toward Transnational Minstrelsy Studies 520 "Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid- nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first popular culture export of the United States, minstrel shows frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens who were unfit for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of a global color line. Chinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy and performance culture into the discussion of apartheid's nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. Exporting Jim Crow highlights blackface minstrelsy's cultural and social impact as it became a dominant form of entertainment, moving from its initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling twentieth-century resurgence on movie screens and at public events. This carefully researched and highly original study demonstrates that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial identity"--|cProvided by publisher 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Minstrel shows|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85085877|zSouth Africa.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n79023005-781 650 0 Blackface entertainers|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh86002417|zSouth Africa.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79023005-781 650 0 White people|xRace identity|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh98006796|zSouth Africa.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023005-781 650 0 Black people|xRace identity|zSouth Africa.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009117261 650 7 Minstrel shows.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1023491 650 7 Blackface entertainers.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/833860 650 7 White people|xRace identity.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1174825 650 7 Black people|xRace identity.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/833987 650 7 Race relations.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1086509 650 7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1007815 651 0 South Africa|xRace relations.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85125494 651 0 South Africa|xSocial life and customs.|0https://id.loc.gov /authorities/subjects/sh2010114240 651 7 South Africa.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204616 655 4 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aThelwell, Chinua.|tExporting Jim Crow. |dAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020] |z9781625345165|w(DLC) 2019044412|w(OCoLC)1122689191 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=2526936|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. 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